This sort of thing drives me up the wall! (Although I'm not yet to the point of hanging myself on it )

Would've/would of. Your/you're. Discrete/discreet. Site/sight. Grisly/grizzly.The ghastly but ubiquitous apostrophe in it's, when it means the possessive its, NOT "it is"! And don't get me started on the horrors of the dangling participle.

Yes, I blame spell check, and simple carelessness as well. No one seems to have time to proofread any more, and I suspect that the first people laid off at publishing houses are the copy editors.

Gnashing of teeth here. * * * * * * * Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?

A man may do both. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!